By Michael Drohan The author, Joe Bargeant, was born in Winchester, Virginia, a town of approximately 27,000 people in the Shenandoah Valley of North-Western Virginia. The town, founded in 1752, has a […]
Amity And Prosperity, Eliza Griswold On The Fracturing Of America
By Mike Schneider Eliza Griswold is an accomplished, award-winning poet, who also writes for The New Yorker and covers southwestern Pennsylvania politics. This year, she published Amity and Prosperity, One Family and […]
Arms and Capital: A Profane Historical Alliance
By Neil Cosgrove Both the mythology surrounding the origins of modern capitalism, and the moral complacency that passes for “sanity” in the complex societies capitalism has wrought, are called into question by […]
Was Thomas Merton Assassinated?
By Joyce Rothermel Idling Intellect Whenever ‘conspiracy theory’ I hear I know that a brain has just gone out of gear. The common phenomenon again I behold. Of a person determined to […]
White Supremacy and the 2nd Amendment
By Michael Drohan Review of book Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, City Lights Books, 2018. This wonderful peoples’ history by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz follows her earlier book […]
Think Like a Commoner: A Review
By Laura Quinn In a New York Times Book Review retrospective on the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, novelist Martin Amis peevishly claims that “the chief demerit of the Marxist program […]
A Hellish Bargain
By Michael Drohan Review of book: Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green, 2017. Green’s book relives the events that catapulted Donald Trump to […]
The Korean War: Convenient Forgetting
By Michael Drohan Review of Book: The Korean War by Bruce Cumings, 2010 The Korean War is often referred to as “the forgotten war,” a name which was first used in an […]
The Insanity of the Nuclear Enterprise
By Michael Drohan Daniel Ellsberg, the author of The Doomsday Machine:Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, is best known for his release of the Pentagon Papers in 1972, which revealed many of […]
BOOK REVIEW: Speak Peace in a World of Conflict by Marshall B. Rosenberg
By Kathleen Gerace My first ventures into peacemaking were the demonstrations against the wars in Afghanistan and then Iraq. Marching along with thousands of others was exhilarating. I felt empowered. But I […]
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